"walking around mhk and crying in the rain because of love lost is the absolute purest and best thing in the world. i hope i fall in love during the next few weeks and get my heart broken and it starts raining just to experience it one last time." --Dlew12

"Our patients were disabled by the disorder and suffered from bouts of pain from two to twenty times a week. They had found no relief from the usual methods of treatment. Their pain was so severe that several of them had to be constantly watched for fear of suicide. Most of them were willing to submit to any operation which might bring relief."

The commander of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team, Lt. Jack B. ReVelle, said of the bomb, "How close was it to exploding? My opinion is damn close. You might now have a very large Bay of North Carolina if that thing had gone off." He also said the size of each bomb was 3.8 megatons, more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, and large enough to have a 100% kill zone of seventeen miles. Each bomb would exceed the yield of all munitions (outside of testing) ever detonated in the history of the world by TNT, gunpowder, conventional bombs, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts combined.[12]

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"I think my grandpa killed some body once, he never liked to talk about Kent State though"

This thread could be extremely dangerous and time consuming. Should come with a warning.

You want time consuming? I'll give you time consuming.

Jim Jones and his cult/mass suicide! I bet you thought you knew a lot about it, but you don't know crap until you read about this!

Got stuck in a Jonestown K-Hole one night and couldn't get out. Read about it until, like, 4 in the morning. Totally crazy crap. Did you know that the group suicide wasn't actually carried out with Kool-Aid, but instead with a knock-off called Flavor-Aid, thus invalidating the phrase "drink the Kool-Aid" and subjecting Kool-Aid to an eternity of framing/bad press? (I made that last part up, I doubt they've suffered any actual financial repercussions from the misrepresentation.)

Did you also know that a newsman and California congressman were killed on their airfield, ultimately prompting the mass suicide?!?

"walking around mhk and crying in the rain because of love lost is the absolute purest and best thing in the world. i hope i fall in love during the next few weeks and get my heart broken and it starts raining just to experience it one last time." --Dlew12

The commander of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team, Lt. Jack B. ReVelle, said of the bomb, "How close was it to exploding? My opinion is damn close. You might now have a very large Bay of North Carolina if that thing had gone off." He also said the size of each bomb was 3.8 megatons, more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, and large enough to have a 100% kill zone of seventeen miles. Each bomb would exceed the yield of all munitions (outside of testing) ever detonated in the history of the world by TNT, gunpowder, conventional bombs, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts combined.[12]

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Five of the six arming mechanisms on one of the bombs activated, causing it to execute many of the steps needed to arm itself, such as charging the firing capacitors and, critically, deployment of a 100-foot-diameter (30 m) Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!) parachute.

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the pilot’s safe/arm switch was the only one of the six arming devices on the bomb that prevented detonation

John Romulus Brinkley (later John Richard Brinkley; July 8, 1885 – May 26, 1942) was a controversial American medical doctor who experimented with xenotransplantation of goat glands into humans as a means of curing male impotence in clinics across several states, and an advertising and radio pioneer who began the era of Mexican border blaster radio.

Goddamn if that isn't a hell of an introductory sentence. Absolutely fascinating article btw, read every word of it. One of the better parts (of many) was this:

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...The Mexican government allowed Brinkley to up his wattage to 150,000 watts. Several months later, Brinkley was allowed to increase to one million watts, "making XER far and away the most powerful radio station on the planet" that, on a clear night, could be heard as far away as Canada. According to accounts of the time, the signal was so strong that it turned on car headlights, made bedsprings hum, and caused broadcasts to bleed into telephone conversations.[26] Local residents didn't even need a radio to hear Brinkley's station; ranchers reported that they received it through their metal fences and in their dental appliances.

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"walking around mhk and crying in the rain because of love lost is the absolute purest and best thing in the world. i hope i fall in love during the next few weeks and get my heart broken and it starts raining just to experience it one last time." --Dlew12

The commander of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team, Lt. Jack B. ReVelle, said of the bomb, "How close was it to exploding? My opinion is damn close. You might now have a very large Bay of North Carolina if that thing had gone off." He also said the size of each bomb was 3.8 megatons, more than 250 times the destructive power of the Hiroshima bomb, and large enough to have a 100% kill zone of seventeen miles. Each bomb would exceed the yield of all munitions (outside of testing) ever detonated in the history of the world by TNT, gunpowder, conventional bombs, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki blasts combined.[12]

Her life at first followed convention. In 1915, she married the well-to-do Richard R. Peabody, whose family had arrived in New Hampshire in 1635. They had two children, but following Richard's service in World War I, Richard turned into a drunk who loved to watch buildings burn.[4]:79 She met Harry Crosby at a picnic in 1920 and they had sex within two weeks. Their public relationship scandalized proper blue blood Boston society.

"Our patients were disabled by the disorder and suffered from bouts of pain from two to twenty times a week. They had found no relief from the usual methods of treatment. Their pain was so severe that several of them had to be constantly watched for fear of suicide. Most of them were willing to submit to any operation which might bring relief."

i get these, tons of fun

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Cheesy Mustache QB might make an appearance.

New warning: Don't get in a fight with someone who doesn't even need to bother to buy ink.